Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-09
M e DICA l. I'm HI A l. A T O N
Combined with Constitutional Remedies.

OUR TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES
~ of the respiratory passages consists III
the employment of Medical Inhalation for
its direct effects on the diseased organs;
and, at the same time, adopting such n.y.
pieBic measures and administering such
medicines by the stomach as will most ef-
fectually purify the blood. give tone to
the nervous system, and build up ana
strengthen the general constitution. In
other words, we employ combined local
and general treatment.
What is Medicsal Inhalation? Before
stating briefly what Medical inhalation
is, we propose, in as lew words as possiole'
to state clearly what 1t is not.
Medical Inhalation Is not cure-all,
nostrum, or a panacea. 1t is not a specific
remedy for any disease. 1t is not quack
medicine, or advertised to cure any or all
the ills that flesh Is heir to, an intended 10
fill the pockets of its proprietors. II is not
a talisman, whose possession insures health
to its possessor without the Intervention OF
sense or judgment. Medical Inhalation is
none of these things.
Medical Inhalation is simply and solely
method OF taking medicines by inhaling or
breathing them into the lungs instead OF
swallowing them into the stomach. BY In.
halation, the proper medicines are applled
directly to the seat of the disease, in the
every reasoning person how peculiarly ap.
plicable Inhalation is in the disorders OF
the organs named. If you have scalded or
burned the surface of the body, or wounded
any limb or member. you do not swallow
the remedy intended to heal the disor-
ganized tissue. On the contrary, you apply
il directly to the seat of the wound or in
Jury Why. then, when suffering from ca
tarI h of the nasal passages or throat, or az
fiicted with ulceratio OF the lungs, should
you rely on medicines taken Into the
stomach?
Medical Inhalation not only applies the
proper healing remedies to the seat OF the
disease, but It applies the remedy In the
as is well known, medicines act most power.
fully. How much greater, for example, is
the effect of drachm of chloroform, when
inhaled or breathed, than many times the
quaptity when swallowed into the stomach;
i he same is true of chlorine, of iodine, and
of many other substances: By inhalation
the medicine Is not poured into the stomach
and thence sent wandering through the
system in search of a malady which may be
mainly or entirely local one; but by this
method the proper remedy is applied di-
| rectly to the diseased organ. Who, alter
| STUDYING the anotOmy of the lungs can
doubt that Inflammation and liberation OF
| the air-tubes and air-cells. the direc. appl1-
ton to the diseased parts, Is the correct and
rational method of treatment? Who. on
| the other hand, can be SO irrational as to
believe that the proper and direct way to
reach the diseased surfaces OF the air
passages in this case. is by the way of the
stomach? Physiology teaches us that the
membrane, or skin, lining the air passages
of the nose, throat and lungs, Is only a
slightly modified form of the same structure
as that which covers the external surface
of the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment be proper and necessary for infiam.
nations, congestiOns and alterations of the
one and not be equally SO in the case OF the
other?
diseases of the nose. throat and lungs. de-
monstrates, beyond all question, that the
true scientific treatment OF these diseases is
that treatment which combines the local
effects of medical inhalation with the con
stitutional effects Of systematic remedies,
given in the usual way by the stomach.
One or both methods must be adopted as
the circumstances demand, and such RENE
dies must be employed as the experience
and Judgment OF the physician nave proved
to be proper in each particular case.
Medical Advocates of I'm ha iati0n.
Physicians who were educated twenty
years ago or more, and who have not kept
up with the times in the advance in medi-
| cal science have very little idea OF the great
| importance all leading writer's now give to
Medical Inhalation in the treatment OF pull
| monary diseases. To such an extent Is this
true that no patient should intrust his case
| to auy physician who is not well prepared
| and thoroughly equipped with everything
necessary for the administering OF the
proper remedies by the method OF inhala-
| ton.
The numerous cures effected by inhala-
| latiOn in cases seemingly past all help, and
the uniform success attending Its use in
diseases of the respiratory organs, renders
it Obligatory on every honest est phytician3 to
knowledge of the Inhalation, or, If that is
not possible, he is at least bound to decline
| to treat such cases.
Among the most eminent physicians OF
the age who are fully awakened to the value
| of Medical Inhalation in these diseases are
the following:
The celebrated Dr. Burden Saunierson, |,
DR.. La Roche, OF the Paris Academy of
Medicine; DR.. Frederick Langhaus. of Ber-
| lin; Drs. Klebs and Tommasi-Cruheli; Sir
Archibald Dickson, OF Edinburgh, Scotland; !;
DR.. Eichler, DR.. Cameron, DR.. Gurdon Buck,
Prot. Albert Lehert, the celebrated Dr.
Hughlings Jackson the venerable DR.. Rob-
Wells. Dr., Hilton Flagge, Dr.. G. P. Wood,
Drs. Fritsch and Hitzig, DR. Fotbergill, DR..
| Richard Thompson, DR.. r. ) Carpenter,
Drs. Anstie. Ball, Fuller. Lancereaux,
Krauss,. Huguenie, Heller. Orth, Corrigan,
Fenwick, and many others.
| With scarcely single exception every
medical authority of eminence recognizes
the wonderful pote ncy OF this new method,
| and the coming generation OF physicians
are certain to be thoroughly educated
l
clans here and there who have made "Dis-
eases of Respiration" life study thlt are
| fitted in any way to employ the wonderful
resources of Medical Inhalation in the cure
| of these diseases.
The Durability of Consumption.
| For five years the celebrated DR.. 1. II
Bennett waa pathologist to the Royal In-
| drmary of Edinburgh. and In his great
work on Consumption" he makes the fol-
lowing statement:
During this period made upwards OF
| 1000 post-mortem examinations of persons
dying from various diseases, and l was
constantly meeting with cases in which /
| found cavities in the lungs from consump.
| ton, which had evidently healed up or
cicatrized years before the death of the
| subject. Nature did not seem to have been
| successful In restoring the wasted lung
substance. but the cavities were dried up,
the progress of the disease arrested, and
the subject lived for years, with diminished
lung power it is true, but otherwise in good
health"